Cricket 1899

J u l y 2?, 1899. C l t l C K E t : A W E E K L Y R E C O R D O E T H E G A M E . 297 LANCASHIRE v. ESSEX. Played at Aigburth on July 20, 21 and 22. Abandoned. On Friday n ght Lancashire had a considerable ad­ vantage. for with only two wickets down in their second innings they were 148 runs on. They increased this lead on Saturday morning to 217 without further lots, so that everything point* d to a victory for them unless Essex managed to play out time. But then the rain came down, and no more play was postiole. The feature of ihe match was the I atting of Tyldesley, who in each innings nearly m aie a hundred; he was quite at his best and hat* evidently recovered his temporary loss of form. MacLaren, A . fl. Hornby, C. R. Hartley and Ward also played very fine cricket for Lancashire. 'Ihe Essex oaitir.g was very dis­ appointing. They lost a wicket very quickly, but Carpenter and Perrin put on nearly a hundred runs for the second wicket, so that there was a reasonable prospect of a big score. But although several other men played well, none of them became well set, and at the end of the innings Lancashire had a lead of 99 runs. For a few minutes in the Lancashire second innings there was a chance of a collapse, for Mac- Laren and Hornby were both out without scoring But there the success of Essex ended. It will be noticed that Young, who had injured his leg in the big match at Old Trafford, was not playiDg for Essex, which made the bowling very weak. L an c a sh ir e . A . C. MacLaren, c Car­ penter,b Buckenham 47 A.H . Hornby,c Russell, b Bull.......................... 49 Ward, c Tosetti, b Buckenham ........... 1 Tyldesley, c Turner, b Carpenter.................. 95 C. R. Hartley, c Mead, b Turner .................... 42 Total A. Eccles, c Turner, b M ead...........................23 Second innings : A . C. MacLaren, b Bull, 0 ; A. H. Hornby, b Mead, 0 ; Ward, not out, 44 ; Tyldesley, not out, 82 ; b 1, nb 1.—Total (2 wkts) 128. E sse x . Turner, Ayres, Cuttell, Mead . Sharp. Bull .. Smith, b Carpenter .. W ebb, b Mead ... . Mold, not out ......... Lb 3, w 2, nb 1 . Ayres, c MacLaren, b M o ld ........................... 9 Carpenter, b W ebb ... 54 P. Perrin, c Hartley, b Sharp...........................66 C.McGahey,cMacLaren b Sharp ......................13 W . M . Turner,cSmith, b Sharp .................... 0 G. Tosetti,b W ebb ... 4 H . G. Owen, b Cuttell 20 Buckenham, b Sharp 9 Russell, c MacLaren, b Ward ...................22 F. G. Bull, not out ... 5 Mead,c Sharp,b Ward 22 B 8, lb 1 ........... 9 Total ...?33 B u ll ........... Mead........... Tosetti Buckenham Ayres........... Turner (W .) Carpenter .. L a n c a s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W . 8 84 2 ... 23 5 ...82*3 ..62 ...12 ...25 ... 3 ... 7 .17 3 ... 0 ... 2 ... 0 ... 1 ... 2 . Second innings. 0 . M. R. W . 12 47 1 10 1 4 30 21 41 4 13 Turner and Carpenter each bowled Mead two no-balls. 1 21 wide, 0 and O. W ebb ...36 M old............18 Cuttell ...25 E ssex . M. R. W . 15 62 2 1Ward 1 54 1 Sharp 9 33 1 | O. M. R. W . ..154 5 41 2 . 26 13 34 4 THE AUSTRALIANS. THE CRYSTAL PALACE MATCH. (Dr. Grace’s Team.) TWENTY-SECOND OF THE TOUR. Played on July 20, 21 and 22. Drawn. This was regarded by everybody as a holiday match. After the excitement of the big match at Manchester, during which the Australians were struggling with desperation, a long railway journey did not tend to make them particularly fresh when they went out to field on Thursday. As a matter of fact many of them would have been all the better for a complete rest. If they had won the toss they would without much doubt have made a very large score, for although Dr. Grace had got together a good many men who could bat, he had not succeeded in finding enough bowiing to get rid of an ordinary county team in less than about a couple of days on a good wioket. The Aus­ tralians were at last able to give Jones a much needed rest, while Worrall and Hill were still unable to play. There was nothing whatever remarkable about the batting of the home team except the partnership of Braund and Alec Hearne; indeed but for the fine stand made by these two men the innings would hardly hava produced a hundred runs. Alec Hearne has been in consistently good form throughout the season, so that ic was not surprising that he should make a big score, but Braund has hardly set the Tham°s on tire. Two wickets fell for 41. and th;n the long partnership began. In the first hour the total was increased i y 79, and the bowling was soon more completely mastered than it has beeu in any match during the tour. Alec iiearne surprised every­ body by the quickness with which he made his ruus, forns a rule he is not a fast nearer. For OLce the fielding of the Australia* s was slack. C «tches were not misled, for the reason that few weie given, but the ground fielding was more like that of sume of the county teams than that which we have been led to look for from our visitors. It was not u n il the total was 242 that the partnership wa* broken, afier it had lasted for two hours and a half, during which 201 runs had been put on. It would be easy to say th it there was nothing very wonderful in the partneiship under all the circumstances, tut this would be a mistake ; so good wa> their batting that if the same stand had been m«»de against Somerse shire or Derby­ shire it would have been a very fine performance, and the Australian bowlers (except Nobie) had teen ab.e to enjoy a two days’ rest, so tnat as far <-s they were concerned they were able to do obeir best. At the end of the day the score was 358 for five wickets, Alec Htarne being still in, so that there was a fair chance that the total made by Cambridge University against the Australians would be exceeded. But the next five wickets only added 73 runs. Alec Hearne continued to show fine form, and eventually beat the 166 made by Brown for Yorkshire against the Australians by tw o runs ; he was batting for five hours. To criticise the batting of the Australians in any detail is un­ necessary. They had nothing to play for except a draw, and they eet abo»t their task in the grimly serious way with which all the wor d has by this time become familiar. They accomplished their object easily enough, but if McLeod had not been misled in the second innings before he had scored they might have been obliged to exert themselves a little to stave off defeat, for a certain amount of rain had affected the wicket. The most noticeable points about the two innings were the return to form of Iredale and McLeod, the bowling of W . G. Quaife, and the prolonged stand by Noble and Iredale which did away with any lingering hope that there might be a collapse in the first innings. Mcl.eod’s second innings was of very great value to his side. D r . G r a c e 's X I. C. O. H. Sewell, c Howell, b Trumble 2 T. L. Taylor, not out 20 G.E.Winter,cMcLeod b Noble ................... 6 Martin, c Darling, b Noble ................... 1 B 23, lb 1 ...........24 Total ..431 F. H. B. Champain, b N oble............................. 10 Quaife (W . G.), b Howell ......................18 Hearne (A.), c and b Trumble ..................168 Braund, b Howell ...125 Arnold, b Howell ... 6 R. E. Foster, c Johns, b McLeod ......................26 W . G. Grace, b Noble 25 A u str a lia n s . First innings. Second innings. F. A . Iredale, c Winter, b Q uaife......................................115 F. Laver, b Martin .............. 8 lbw, b Grace ...2 9 Y . Trumper, b G race................25 S. E. Gregory, c Champain, b Foster ................................48 not out...............29 J. Darling, c Grace, b W inter........................................22 M. A . Noble, st Taylor, b W inter...................................... 35 J. J. Kelly, c and b W inter 8 H. Trumble, not o u t ................14 o Sewell, bGrace 11 C. E. McLeod, b Quaife .. 14 not out .....32 W . P. Howell, b Quaife ... 0 c Champain, b Grace ....... 4 A . E. Johns, b Quaife ... 0 B 8, lb 2, w 1, nb 1 ...1 2 B4, lb 2, wl,n b 1 8 Total ...301 Total (3 wkts)113 D r . G r a c e ’ s X I. O.M. R. W . O. M.R. W . Trumble ...49 16 104 2 Laver ...10 3 48 0 Noble ...19*1 3 57 4 Gregory ... 7 1 24 0 Howell ...50 11 128 3 Trum per ... 1 0 5 0 McLeod ...23 10 41 1 A u str a lia n s . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Heame (A.) ...26 14 25 0 ............ Martin ........... 22 8 42 1 ............. Winter ........... 26 1 62 3 ............. 13 2 34 0 Grace .. ........... 20 5 30 1 ............. 10 2 29 3 Braund ...........14 7 38 0 ............. 5 2 14 0 Quaife ........... 151 6 28 4 ............. 18 6 20 0 Arnold ...........18 5 35 0 ............. Foster ......... 50 29 1 . Sewell .................... 1 0 4 0 Champain ............ 1 0 4 0 Arnold and Braund bowled a no-ball, and Quaife and W inter a wide. SURREY v. SUSSEX. A H U N D R E D R U N S IS A F IR S T M A T C H . Played at Brighton on July 20, 21 and 22. Drawn. So excellent was the wicket, so powerful the batting, and so weak the bowling in tuis mat.h, that only twenty-one wickets fell in the course of the three days. The spectat »rs were very fortunate, f r nearly all the batsmen whom ihey would most like to see in form came off, me re particularly in the case of their own players. If the game had lasted for another quarter of an hour Ranjitsinhji might have had the honour of again placing two separate hundreds in a match to his credit; as it was he h id to be content wiih 174 and 8J not out. Brann was also very near to making two separate hundreds, and he is not likely to be dissatisfied with his doings, for bis scores were 81 and 85 not out. Never has Kanjitsinhji been se-n to greater advantage, which is saying a very great deal; he tcok charge of the bowling from the first, and had a right royal time. As he also took three wichets at a vtry reasonable cost he, like Brann. may well be satisfied with his work for the three days. In both innings Fry was seen at his le s t; that is to say he made many beautiful hits and played delightful cricket. Of late the Sussex tail has on occasions belied itself, and has taken to making very useful scores, and altogether the team is stronger now than ic his been for years. The new captains do not confine their bowling to four or five men, and in this they are un­ doubtedly wise ; it is all very well for a strong bowling team to ring the changes on a few men, but when the bowling is notoriously weak it is as well to make as many changes as possible, for the worst may always get the best wicket. Good as was the batting of the Sussex men, it was no better than that of their oppo­ nents, for whom Miller made an extremely successful debut ; he is one of the very few men who have scored a hundred on their first appearance in first-class cricket. His batting was very sound, and he shows promise of being a most useful man to Surrey. If he had only been a bowler instead of a batsman! Brockwell was in splendid form, and with Miller put up 162 for the first wicket; Lockwood was in one of his most attractive moods, and Lees gave an exhibi­ tion of batting which delighted the crowd. It was a great achievement to go in against a total o f 453 and beat it. Sussex had three hours batting in the second innings and lost only one wicket during that time, the batting of Fry, Brann and Ranjitsinhji being perfect. S U 88EX . b T. Tate, c Wood, Richardson ........... Parris, c H. Richard­ son, b Lockwood ... Butt, not out ........... Bland, c H. Richard­ son, b Lockwood ... Marlow, cLees,b Knox 29 G. Brann, lbw, b Lock­ wood .............................. 81 C. B. Fry, b Lockwood 64 Vine, b Lockwood ... 0 K. S. Raojitsinbji, b Brockw ell....................174 Killick, c W ood, b T. Richardson ..............13 A. CoLins,bT.Richard­ son ..............................42 Second innings : G. Brann, not out, 85; C. B. Fry, c brockwell, b Hayes, 49 ; K. S. Ranjitsinhji, notout. 83; b 3, lb 4, 7—Total (1 wkt.) 224. S u rrey . B 5, lb 7, w 3, nb 1 16 Total ..453 Brockwell, lbw, b Tate 74 K. J. Key, c Brann, b N.Miller,c Vine.b Tate 124 R anjitsinhji........... 21 F. P. Knox, c late, b Lees, c Collins, b blan d........................... 21 Ranjitsinhji ........... 65 Abel, c Butt, b Ranjit­ sinhji ........................... Wood, c Bland, b 32 T a te ........................... 6 H . B. Richardson, c Richardson (T.), not Parris, b Bland 5 out ........................... 12 Lockwood, c Collins, b B 6, w 2, nb 3 ... 11 V i n e ........................... 73 Hayes, c Marlow, b Total ...........476 Collins ................... 32 S ussex . First innings. Second inning". O. M . R. W . O. M . R. W . Lockwood ... 42*3 13 92 5 ........... Lees................. 24 4 77 0 ............ 8 3 21 0 K n ox.............. 15 2 57 1 ............ 6 0 33 0 T. Richardson 36 5 115 3 ............ 22 2 76 0 Brockwell ... 31 8 72 1 ............ 11 4 32 0 A b e l .............. 6 0 16 0 ............ 4 1 13 0 Hayes ......... 6 2 8 0 ............ 19 7 30 1 H. Richardson 1 0 1 0 ............. Miller 2 0 12 0 Knox, T. Richardson, and Lockwood each bowled a wide, and Lockwood a no-ball. Bland Killick Parris Tate... Collins S u rrey . M. R. W. 9 76 2 |Vine 1 63 0 9 40 0 16 86 3 5 32 1 O. M. R .W . . 9 2 31 1 Brann ... 13 7 PI 0 Fry ............ 4 0 15 0 Ranjitsinhji24 5 91 3 Fry and Killick bowled one wide each, and Bland three no-balls.